REVEALING THE SECRETS OF POWERFUL RELATIONSHIPS TM

Tabula Rasa is a Latin phrase, which, translated into English, means ‘blank slate’. Its most common use is within the philosophical doctrine that individuals aren’t born with mental content pre-programmed and so all knowledge is as a consequence of experience and perception. That position and the associated nature versus nurture debate is still an ongoing […]

Some years ago, around the turn of the 20th century, a traveller arrived to a small town just north of the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia and walked into the general store, where a handful of the locals mingled. The traveler turned to the locals and asked, ‘Gentlemen, could you direct me to the Okefenokee Swamp?’ […]

It turns out that the highlights reel – the short and summarised version of a set of accomplishments – is exactly that – a set of short and summarised accomplishments. What it fails to include are the trials and tribulations, the tests of one’s patience and endurance. It fails to record the highs and lows, […]

No one is coming to save you. There won’t be a life ring, life raft or lifeboat. The only person who can save you – is you. If business is down, if sales have slumped, if customers have left; there isn’t help on the horizon. There’s only you and a set of skills that can […]

At the end of the day, what questions are you asking? Over 70% of a person’s development is as a result of their own experiences. Not the experience they get in a formal ‘classroom’ setting or the experience they get from working with others. No, the largest contributor of personal development is their own experience. […]

Although ‘remain’ because of the overall philosophy being one that I considered most aligned with my own views (that we live in a world where connection and openness is essential and provides us with the opportunity to enhance our power, interest and influence on the world stage) I worked to understand the opinions of both […]

In order to affect the outcome of the decision making process within an organisation or group, there are three elements to consider. Power, interest and influence. Let me define each of them. Power is quite formal. It is often something that is given and can usually be determined by status, authority or access to resources. […]

I met a vampire the other day so thought I would re-share this post from March 2014… Vampires are mythological beings who subsist by feeding on the life essence of living creatures, regardless of whether they are undead or a living person. Unfortunately, there also exist the metaphorical vampires – who may not feed on the same food as […]

There has been much talk by business commentators and writers about the growth of small businesses and entrepreneurialism. At times it is perhaps easy to think that, given some of these ideas, that we should go and quit our jobs and run headlong into a new venture expecting it to be fundamentally different to our […]

…And The Changes Required To Solve Them When you look at the world in which we sell into now, what’s very clear is that, probably for the first time in the last 100 years, we aren’t on the brink of a significant change; we are smack bang in the middle of one. And it’s the […]